In what year was Wilhelm Wien born?
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Wilhelm Wien was born in 1864 in Gaffken, Prussia. He was a German physicist who is best known for his work on blackbody radiation. Wien's law, which he published in 1893, describes the relationship between the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation and its temperature. This law was later incorporated into Planck's law of blackbody radiation, which is a more complete description of the phenomenon.
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